Experiments

Searchable full-text extractions: founding hypothesis, core claims, experimental setups, key results and statistics — pulled out of each paper as structure. Search a cell line, an assay or an entity (e.g. HUH7) and find every paper that worked with it. This corpus stands on its own: most entries carry no reproduction assessment (yet).

• Mutational analysis of mismatch repair genes, hMLH1 and hMSH2, in sporadic endometrial carcinomas with microsatellite instability.

  PMID 8609062 · PMC5921065 · Japanese journal of cancer research : Gann · 1996 · 5 claims · 2 setups

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  Mutations of hMLH1 or hMSH2 play only a limited role in the development of sporadic endometrial carcinomas.

  sporadic matched mutational

• Evaluating Distribution and Prognostic Value of New Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes in HCC Based on a scRNA-Seq Study With CIBERSORTx.

  PMID 33043022 · PMC7527443 · Frontiers in medicine · 2020 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  CIBERSORTx can combine scRNA-seq-derived signature matrices with bulk RNA-seq data to estimate proportions of 11 TIL subsets in HCC tumor and normal tissue

  tcga degs cd4-gzma prognostic scrna-seq cibersortx differential

• Application of Machine Learning in Predicting Hepatic Metastasis or Primary Site in Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors.

  PMID 37887568 · PMC10605255 · Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2023 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Multi-gene random forest models classify primary tumor vs. liver metastasis samples with 100% accuracy in training/test cohorts and >90% accuracy in an independent validation cohort

  pancreatic rna-seq liver tumor bulk machine multi-label

• An individualized causal framework for learning intercellular communication networks that define microenvironments of individual tumors.

  PMID 36548438 · PMC9822106 · PLoS computational biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  An individualized Bayesian causal discovery framework can learn tumor-specific intercellular communication networks (ICNs) by combining single-cell gene expression module (GEM) discovery, bulk tumor deconvolution, and individualized causal network learning.

  hnscc cd45+ cd8+ tcga single-cell bulk pseudo-time

• A global database for modeling tumor-immune cell communication.

  PMID 37438390 · PMC10338499 · Scientific data · 2023 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  TICCom integrates 739 experimentally-validated or manually-curated TIC interactions collected from more than 3,000 literatures

  pubmed scrna-seq tcga basal manual scrna-seq bulk

• Mutually exclusive teams-like patterns of gene regulation characterize phenotypic heterogeneity along the noradrenergic-mesenchymal axis in neuroblastoma.

  PMID 38230570 · PMC10795782 · Cancer biology & therapy · 2024 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  NOR-specific and MES-specific gene expression patterns are largely mutually exclusive, exhibiting a teams-like behavior across multiple bulk NB transcriptomic datasets

  lines bulk single-cell housekeeping bulk pca single-sample

• Liver-specific paraoxonase-1 alleviates regulatory T cell-driven immunosuppression via metabolic reprogramming in hepatocellular carcinoma.

  PMID 41387425 · PMC12701056 · Nature communications · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  PON1 expression is downregulated in HCC tumor tissue and low PON1 is associated with worse prognosis

  hcc paired hepa1-6 pon1-nc bioinformatic immunohistochemistry orthotopic

• Constructing an APOBEC-related gene signature with predictive value in the overall survival and therapeutic sensitivity in lung adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 37954334 · PMC10637964 · Heliyon · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  APOBEC family genes are differentially expressed across cancer types and tissues, with APOBEC3B being the most aberrantly upregulated gene in most cancers including LUAD

  tcga tcga-luad beas-2b rna-seq somatic gene

• Identification and validation of a metabolic-related gene risk model predicting the prognosis of lung, colon, and breast cancers.

  PMID 39779736 · PMC11711664 · Scientific reports · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  540 DEGs overlap across breast, colorectal, and lung cancers out of 11,384 DEGs analyzed

  breast colorectal lung common microarray kegg protein-protein

• Developing a thyroid cancer differentiation state classification system using deep residual networks and metabolic signature profiling.

  PMID 40993300 · PMC12460824 · NPJ digital medicine · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Metabolic status is closely tied to tumor differentiation state, with distinct metabolic reprogramming occurring during thyroid cancer dedifferentiation

  thyroid fuscc gse193581 aggregated untargeted whole-exome transcriptomics

• p53 gene mutations associated with anaplastic transformation of human thyroid carcinomas.

  PMID 1483945 · PMC5918745 · Japanese journal of cancer research : Gann · 1992 · 6 claims · 4 setups

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  p53 gene mutations were found in 2 of 9 anaplastic thyroid carcinomas by RNase protection analysis and confirmed by DNA sequencing

  anaplastic genomic coexisting rnase pcr sequencing

• Application of proteomics in the study of tumor metastasis.

  PMID 15862116 · PMC5172469 · Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics · 2004 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cell function is directly regulated through proteins, not genes or mRNA, so metastasis-related gene findings need protein-level validation via proteomics.

  young metastatic hepatocellular lines microarray 2de cdna

• Prevalence of von Hippel-Lindau gene mutations in sporadic renal cell carcinoma: results from The Netherlands cohort study.

  PMID 15932632 · PMC1177929 · BMC cancer · 2005 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  VHL mutations were detected in 61% (114/187) of sporadic clear-cell RCC patients

  archival subset flanking paraffin-embedded pcr-sscp feasibility histopathological

• Thirty years into the genomics era: tumor viruses led the way.

  PMID 17940630 · PMC1994808 · The Yale journal of biology and medicine · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Restriction endonuclease-based analysis and sequencing of small tumor virus genomes (SV40, phiX174) established the technical framework later used to sequence bacterial and human genomes

  sv40 bacteriophage epstein-barr aids-associated restriction recombinant sequencing

• Proteomic analysis of nipple aspirate fluid from women with early-stage breast cancer using isotope-coded affinity tags and tandem mass spectrometry reveals differential expression of vitamin D binding protein.

  PMID 16542425 · PMC1431555 · BMC cancer · 2006 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  ICAT tandem MS can identify and quantify differences in specific protein expression between NAF from tumor-bearing and disease-free breasts

  paired icat-labeled spectra naf icat sds-page liquid

• Does tumorigenesis select for or against mutations of the DNA repair-associated genes BRCA2 and MRE11?: considerations from somatic mutations in microsatellite unstable (MSI) gastrointestinal cancers.

  PMID 16417627 · PMC1382246 · BMC genetics · 2006 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Heterozygous truncating BRCA2 mutations occur in 47% (7/15) of gastrointestinal MSI cancer cell lines/xenografts, a higher rate than previously reported

  gastrointestinal ls174t pl3 msi gene rt-pcr rad51

• Tissue microarrays characterise the clinical significance of a VEGF-A protein expression signature in gastrointestinal stromal tumours.

  PMID 17299397 · PMC2360083 · British journal of cancer · 2007 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  A combined VEGF-A ligand and flt-1 receptor protein expression signature discriminates malignant from benign GIST

  archival tma genomic pcr immunohistochemistry unsupervised pcr-dhplc

• Profiling human androgen receptor mutations reveals treatment effects in a mouse model of prostate cancer.

  PMID 19010817 · PMC2748651 · Molecular cancer research : MCR · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Somatic AR mutations in h/mAR-TRAMP tumors are non-random and their genomic location correlates with treatment type (castration/antiandrogen vs intact).

  mar-tramp testis cv-1 ar-negative immunohistochemistry serum survival

• Genomic profiling of microRNA and messenger RNA reveals deregulated microRNA expression in prostate cancer.

  PMID 18676839 · PMC2597340 · Cancer research · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  MicroRNA processing components (Dicer, DGCR8) and microRNA host genes (MCM7, C9orf5) are significantly up-regulated in prostate tumors versus non-tumor tissue

  prostate subset lncap 22rv1 microrna quantitative western

• Stemming cancer: functional genomics of cancer stem cells in solid tumors.

  PMID 18561035 · PMC2758383 · Stem cell reviews · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cancer stem cells are a minority tumor subpopulation that alone can maintain indefinite tumor growth, as shown by serial transplantation experiments

  solid fetal cd133+ breast facs neurosphere genome-wide